San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-05-03
EDITORIAL BREvITIEs

BUFFALO BILL takes the cake rs all adj
yertiser. His dining Gladstone and re-
ceiving him with all the hOnOrs at the
Wild West Show, throws Sara, Patti and
Bsrnum all In the shade.
THERE Is u fatal defect OF memory on
the part of Grover concerning his Sec
Ond term utterances. Ii not on his part,
then on the part of the several and
divers congressman who have spoken
thereof.
The number Of labOrers to be employ
ed upon that new city hall will only be
rs a drop In the bucket compared to the
numbers of those who would find EN-
pioyment in case the sewer system was
ordered. Let US have that, too.
The people who are offering to mort
gage their farms TO pay taxes and can
not raise the money even at two per
cent. O month are not banking very
heavily on the reelection Of Governor
Ross.
As the returns come 10, II grows more
and more evident that Texas Is far from
being given over to the demon of drOuth
and relegated to the realms OfstarvatiOn
and barrenness. The cor dition of the state
has wonderfully changed for the better
within thirty days.
JUDGING from the eagerness with
which CleYelsnd's declensiOn of a sec
ond term was seized upon by big Sec
tion of the democracy, there Is an ele-
ment Of the party that bankers terribly
for new deal.
A great and grievous cry arises for
Grover to drag his corpulency beyond
the precincts Of New York state. He
needs to climb some hill higher than
Capitol hill and see broader plain than
the Potomac flats, If he expects to grasp
the possibilities of this country.
The Chicago Journal draws the dis
tinction between a "cyclOne," which
moves ION parabOic curve" and tor
nado" which moves on a "diabOlic
a .long-suflering public when the an
srchists are going to move on that tor
nado line?
SAM JONES and the Small Sam have
tackled the sinners in the big flour city
on the upper Mississippi, and will dust
their religious jackets for them with a
gospel fail. The people who could find
comfort in an ice palace this past winter
ought to be able to stand little sultry
and sulphrOus atmosphere by way OF
change.
WEST VIRGINIA is having some expert
enCe with Doodle matters. 1t Is alleged
that her democratic senator elect, Cam
den, secured his return to the United
States senate by ways that were dark
and by tricks that were vain. The mat
ter seems nightly mixed, and as the
principal witness has "spells" and
''epileptic fits" it is charitably con-
hal 10 fSf hn
requirements of West Virginia justice.
ST. AUGUSTINE writes "Ichabod" upon
her glorious temple front ard sits down
in the dust and ashes of her decaying
celebrity. Her old slave market has
gone up in smoke; her historic cathedral
with all that it contained and suggest
ed Is thing of the past; and, now Ger
Onimo and his Apache crowd fold up
their tents at Uncle Sans bidding, to
pitch them beyond the confines of the
great Alligator state. Sic transit gloria
THE present laws govern until new
laws take their places. The present To-
cal option is jsut as much in force as
though no prohibition amendment was
to be,submitteG; and it will continue in
force, no matter how that amendment
may result, at least until the new laws
If the amendment is adopted the laws
that will be enacted to give that meas
ure effect will necessarily include a re-
peal of all other laws conflicting with it.
The Fort Worth Gazette objects to
democratic convention at Dallas, COM
posed in part of republicans, and does
not desire to be bound by any declara-
tion of democratic principles, such q
mil
Mr.. Gazette. The republicans OF Texas
are in no hurry to stand sponsor for
such democratic fOOlishness as the late
Legislature became such a conspicuous
exponent of. The republicans of Texas
are free and unbound on all questions
submitted to the people, upon which
they have not committed themselves In
their state, or in the national convention
Of their party.
EDINBURGH draws the::olerioal line at
baby perambulatOrs. A clergyman of
that gOOdly, cody town shocked his
parishiOners by walking abroad with his
baby in his arms. They accordingly
presented him with baby carriage. He
wheeled the vehicle along the streets
himself instead of engaging some Scotch
lassie to do it for him, and he was very
soon notified that his pastoral services
were no longer in demand. His CONVEX
sation was truly becoming minister of
Christ, but they did not think that his
carriage OrresuOnded thereto.
The delegates to the anti-prohibition
convention, which meets in Dallas to-
morrow, are already girding up their
loins for the fight. San AntOniO's con-
tingent leaves this evening, and will
doubtless give a good account of them
selves. After this formal Inauguration
Of the campaign against fanaticism the
personal liberty fight will be waged with
more energy and unison OF idea and
purpose than has been apparent hereto
fore. There are yet three months for
the fight If the prohibitionists win,
Texas becomes, as is Iowa, Maine.
Rhode Island and Kanas, free-whisky-
and-no-revenue state. No more i'm
pOrtaDt duty ever devolved upon any
political convention in Texas than de-
wolves upon this non-partisan, non-po-
litical gathering which meets at Dallas
tomorrow. A convention over which
the prohibition organs will howl worse
than all the ours of Constantinople, and
yet convention to which the good peo-
pie of Texas must look for deliverance
from the most pernicious form of fanat-
icism that the fanatioal ages have given
birth to.
JUDGE TERRELL, without defining his
position infinitely on the proposed con-
stitutional amendment, says that he is
opposed to changing the state cOnven-
tiOn for the purpose OF preventing a
man from making bottle Of wine even
for his own use. This sentiment must
be made vital throughout Texas. Texas
wants no law which makes il a felony